A manual of psychology / by G.F. Stout.

  • George Frederick Stout
Date:
1921
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    ment of love or interest, when the appropriate conditions are present. Now consider how these same emotions repeat them- selves, often with opposite objects, in the life-history of every sentiment which we name dislike or hatred. There is pain instead of pleasure in the presence of the object, desire to be rid of it, to escape from its presence, unless we can injure it or lower its quality, hope or despondency according to the chances of accomplishing this desire, ela- tion or disappointment with success or failure, anger or fear when it is thrust upon us and persists, surprise when the unexpected occurs, regret or grief, not in its loss or injury, but in its presence and prosperous state.” ^ The distinction between emotion and sentiment is to a large extent a distinction between dispositions and actual states of consciousness. Such a sentiment as friendship cannot be experienced in its totality at any one moment. It is felt only in the special phase which is determined by the circumstances of the moment. If we are parting from our friend, we feel sorrow; if we are about to meet him after long absence, we feel joy. The joy and the sorrow are actual experiences; but the sentiment which includes the susceptibility to either, according to circumstances, cannot in its totality be an actual experience. It is a com- plex emotional disposition ^ which manifests itself variously under varying conditions. These varying manifestations are the actual experiences which we call emotions. Thus we may say that so far as actual experience is concerned the sentiment is constituted by the manifold emotions in which it manifests itself. But this must be understood * “ Character and the Emotions,” Mind^ N.S., No. 18 (April 1896), pp. 217-218. * See Bk. iii., Pt. ii., Ch. v.
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